Trying to initialize variables

**random0munky** · 10-14-2009, 10:12 PM

Hi, I'm having a little trouble with the introduction of the final modifier. I'm doing a bankAccount homework assignment, however I ran into my first problem.

Java Code:

public class BankAccount implements NamedAccount {
	
	private String name ;
	private double iRate ;
	private double balance ;
	
public BankAccount(final String nameOfOwner, final double interestRate) {
	
}

What I want to do is take nameOfOwner = name ; and interestRate = iRate ;
Except there's the final modifier in front of nameOfOwner and interestRate. Also I cannot change the method signature in anyway either.
So my question is, how do i do such a task =/ Thanks

**r035198x** · 10-14-2009, 10:21 PM

You can't change the values of final variables once they are assigned. That is where they get get their name (final) from. You probably don't want to do nameOfOwner = name but name = nameOfOwner instead. The two are different.